Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2020 i Practical Photoshop

It might be difficult to get out and about to shoot new landscapes right now, but if you’re anything like us, you probably have some landscape photos on your hard drive that you’ve yet to properly process. There could be incredible potential hidden within your files, just waiting for the right tools to tease it out. Straight out of camera, a landscape can often look a little flat – this is specially true if you shoot in raw, as raws are initially duller than JPEGs, which are processed in-camera. Skies in particular can lack punch and detail, as they tend to come out slightly overexposed in most landscapes. However, with simple tools in Camera Raw we can enhance a dull sky and balance it out with the land below. Use…

Maybe it’s the right time to master one of those tools that you’ve never quite gotten round to learning… How about the Pen Tool? If you don’t know how to use this powerful tool, then it can initially seem a little daunting, but dedicate an hour or two to it and you’ll be rewarded with one of the most intuitive and precise tools for making all kinds of selections and shapes. 01 PLOT A PATH Grab the Pen Tool, then zoom in and click on an object edge to begin a new path. Click and drag a second point to make a smoothed curved line and try to match it with the edge. If you need to take the line in the opposite direction, hold Alt and click the anchor…

The image-editing process begins as soon as you’ve transferred your photos from your memory card to your computer. 1 The first stage is to begin sifting through your pictures to discover which are the keepers. The image organizer that comes with Photoshop is ideal for this task. Adobe Bridge has controls for keywording, rating and filtering your images, and there are handy tools for batch renaming files, creating panoramic stitches, making contact sheets and more. Launch Adobe Bridge and navigate to a folder containing new images. Use the cursor keys to quickly flick through the images and click below a thumbnail to add a star rating, or use the keyboard shortcut Cmd/Ctrl+1-5. You can then filter your photos by the star rating to group the ones you want to work…

If you have an image library full of old photos of your kids or family, then now is a great time to sort through them and choose a few to present as a collage. This is easy to do with Photoshop’s Frame Tool… 01 CREATE SHAPES Go to File > New in Photoshop to create a new document and adjust the sizing to match your needs – here we’ve opted for a 12 x 12-inch square. Next, grab the Shape Tool and use it to draw rectangles, squares or any other shapes you like for your image windows. 02 DROP IN YOUR PHOTOS Right-click a Shape layer and select Convert To Frame from the resulting pop-menu, then drag and drop an image into the frame from Bridge. Adjust the photo’s…

Within the Liquify Filter (Filter > Liquify) is a set of amusing Face-Aware tools that let you manipulate and reshape different parts of a face, like the eyes, lips and nose. It’s designed for subtle enhancements, but you can also have fun experimenting with stronger settings (and if you like, you can even run the filter over a portrait a couple of times). Why not make versions of your family to send out to everyone?…

There are three parts to this fun smoky portrait project. The first two stages involve shooting the smoke and the portrait. Capturing the portrait is very simple: you just need to photograph a person side-on in profile against a clean, light backdrop. In fact, you might already have a photograph on your hard drive that would be perfect for this project. If you just want to test out your Photoshop skills, you can use the portrait we’ve already supplied. As for the smoke images, if you like, you can skip this stage and use the smoke brushes we’ve supplied amongst the project files. But it’s much more satisfying to make your own. All you need is a flashgun and an incense stick or vape. Within a few minutes, you can…

The technique of selective lightening and darkening has been central to photography for over a century. In the days of film, areas of a print could be shielded from the light of an enlarger, or ‘dodged’. Conversely, the light could be focused on to smaller areas to ‘burn’ them in. Photoshop makes this technique easier with dedicated Dodge and Burn tools. The Dodge Tool lets you paint to lighten areas, while the Burn Tool darkens. But there are still a few settings to master if you want to get the most out of these tools. Dodge and Burn aren’t the only features on offer in Photoshop for selective lightening or darkening. Most of us begin editing our photos in a raw processor, like Photoshop’s Camera Raw, or the near-identical tools…

The latest version of the raw file processor included with Photoshop is so powerful that most photos can be processed entirely in the raw processor, with no need for further editing in Photoshop. And by making your adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw, rather than in Photoshop, you’ll ensure the best possible image quality, because raw files contain more picture information than bitmap images such as un-layered PSDs and JPEGs. Here’s our reference to the features you’ll use the most in the Basic panel. THE BASIC PANEL IN ACR TEMPERATURE Use this slider to warm or cool an image if the White Balance tool fails to correct a color cast TINT This slider enables you to correct a green or magenta cast, again, if the White Balance tool fails EXPOSURE Controls…

D Reset the foreground and background colors to black and white ALT+[SCROLL WHEEL] Zoom in or out of the image CMD/CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E SPACE BAR Temporarily switch the current tool to the Hand tool, for moving around the image while zoomed in ALT+[EYE ICON] Switch off the visibility of all other layers in the layer stack, for before-and-after comparisons CMD/CTRL+I Invert the color of a layer mask to black SHIFT+[LAYER MASK] Disable the effects of a layer mask X Switch the foreground and background color swatches [OR] Resize the brush tip SHIFT+[OR] Cycle backwards or forwards through the layer blend modes CMD/CTRL+Z Undo the last change made to the document. Works multiple times CMD/CTRL+[LAYER MASK] Load the currently active layer mask as a new selection CMD/CTRL+T Activate the Free Transform tool…

Why not create a funny meme or e-card to send to a friend or family member and put a smile on their face? In this quick tutorial we’ll look at how to cut out the subject with the Object Selection Tool, then add a vivid background color before styling the text. To begin, open the image into Photoshop then grab the Object Selection Tool from the toolbar and drag a box over the subject to select it. Click the Add Mask icon to hide the background behind a mask. Make a new layer and drag below the other, then go to Edit > Fill, choose a color and click OK. Finally, grab the Type Tool and type your message, then use the Character Panel (Window > Character) to control the…

If you have an album of treasured old family photos in need of a little TLC, now might be a good time to dust them off, digitize them and use Photoshop to clean them up. It’s a relaxing process, and something we can all get lost in for a few hours. Once done, you’ll have a set of pristine photos of your loved ones, ready to print out or share with your family. 01 DIGITIZE THE PRINT If you need to create a digitized version of your image, then you can either use a scanner or alternatively take a photo of it with your camera. If you opt for the camera, try to keep the lighting flat and even, so that there are no shiny reflections on the print. Once…

If you’re relatively new to editing in Photoshop, or you just don’t know where to begin, then this section is the best place to get started. Over the next 10 pages, you’ll find an overview of the different versions of Photoshop available; a breakdown of the typical image-editing workflow in Photoshop; an overview of raw file editing; a guide to the six most useful layers; and a glossary of the most useful shortcuts. This guide condenses most of the tools and techniques you’ll use every time you import a new roll of pictures. PHOTOSHOP CC FROM £9.98/$9.99 PER MONTH WINDOWS, macOS Photoshop is the software of choice for most professional and non-professional photographers. Beyond the standard photo-editing features, it boasts a vast array of more creative tools and filters. Layers…